{"id":3177,"date":"2010-02-06T18:08:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T23:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2010-02-06T18:10:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T23:10:58","slug":"alabama-pork-holding-up-security-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/02\/06\/alabama-pork-holding-up-security-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Pork Holding Up Security Nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Shelby Extortion\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/thenote\/2010\/02\/whats-holding-up-security-nominees-alabama-pork.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the article that explains Senator Richard Shelby (R. Ala.) has put a hold on\u00a0 nominees to be the top Intelligence officers at the State Department  and the Department of Homeland Security as well as the number three  civilian at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the hold amounts to extortion on Shelby&#8217;s part.\u00a0 There is a $35 billion defense contract that he wants in his state and he doesn&#8217;t seem to care what he has to do to extort it.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine I am not the only one who is starting to wonder why the Senate has to give in to this crap.<\/p>\n<p>The harm that these rules produce probably far out weighs the harm that they prevent.<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a title=\"White House comment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2010\/02\/05\/another-day-another-disappointing-political-ploy-obstructing-progress\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to see what the White house has to say about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the article that explains Senator Richard Shelby (R. Ala.) has put a hold on\u00a0 nominees to be the top Intelligence officers at the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security as well as the number three civilian at the Pentagon. The reason for the hold amounts to extortion on Shelby&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3179,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}